Megavalanche / Mountain of Hell 2011

Hi,

Anyone doing either of the above events this year? I've registered for the Mega already and want to do the Mountain of Hell the week after if possible but the registration for that hasn't started yet (some time this month according to the Les Deux Alpes resort people).

My Enduro's gone to the dealer for a full e150 service today, should be getting all new internals. Also hope that Spesh will supply a replacement headset bolt as I mashed the head of one of them and they aren't standard bolts available in any hardware store.

Other than replacing the rear Jagwire gear cable and casing, damaged in a fall in last year's Mega, I don't think I'll be making any upgrades as I did all I needed to do for last year's event.

The bike will be the same for this year's event except that it now has an XT crank set as I wrecked the stock crank at last year's event in a minor collision. Same goes for the Mallet 2 pedals, one got bent and I'm back on a pair of Mallet 1s.

Yes, I saw a lot of Enduros at last year's Mega, mostly of the '06 to '09 range but a couple of people had '10 models which were new then. I read somewhere that nobody as yet has won the event on a true downhill bike so I guess it's no surprise that Enduro/AM type bikes are the most popular. You still see tons of people with DH bikes there though, the downhill sections make it great fun for a DH bike. There is also the Meaga Cup which is the true DH event of the weekend.